Mentoring is something that is in my DNA. When I was in college I remember not just trying to learn what the teacher was presenting, but I'd also pay attention to how the teachers conducted their lectures. In some cases I'd think to myself that...

by: Glenn Goodrich This post is the winner of The Great Devlicio.us Giveaway . The story you are about to read is true. The names and identities of the innocent have been changed to protect them and my job. No animals were harmed in the writing of this...

We've just finished tallying up our votes for the Great Devlicio.us Giveaway and we are pleased to announce that the winner is Glenn Goodrich . We had enough entries to make the contest worthwhile and we decided to give prizes for every story. Everyone...

Let's say you are hired to help build or fix an application. You contract is not for hire and you know that after 3, 6 or 12 months you will be gone to repeat the same cycle elsewhere. I'm sure we have all seen contractors that will do just about...

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We are working on SQL 2008 for a new project with the intent to leverage the new data types , in this case especially the HIERARCHYID data type. One of the stored procedures we created had a parameter of type HIERARCHYID . The code that calls the stored...

One thing I realized when working in large companies is that Excel is the true data exchange file format. That what the business types exchange among themselves and how they like to persist any kind of lists or anything that needs to be formatted like...

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The Chicago ALT.NET crowd will be meeting on June 11 th . This time we have a new location with the space graciously offered by ThoughtWorks . You can register and get more information about the event at the link below. If you haven't been to one...

A few months ago, when I installed Visual Studio 2008 on my system, I opened one of my projects, did the usual project conversion, edited some files, created a few others, saved, tested, and checked in source control. Another developer working on the...